Alexandra Bell
Gang Leader

Gang Leader

© 2021 Alexandra Bell

Gang Leader
Gang Leader
ArtistAmerican, born 1983
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Gang Leader
  • from the series Counternarratives
Date2021
MediumInkjet prints with screenprint, printed chine collé
DimensionsImage (Each): 60 × 34 in. (152.4 × 86.4 cm)
Frame (each): 62 1/2 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (158.8 × 82.6 × 5.7 cm)
Overall (Diptych): 60 × 64 in. (152.4 × 162.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2023.272.A,.B
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Alexandra Bell is an interdisciplinary artist who uses her journalistic training to investigate and unpack racial bias within mainstream news sources. In her Counternarratives series, Bell creates multi-panel works in which she physically edits and intervenes on published news stories, revealing the ways in which purportedly neutral and objective editorial decisions result in stories that perpetuate racist narratives and harm minority communities. Gang Leader offers Bell’s corrective intervention to a 2018 New York Times feature about Gavin McInnes—founder of the Proud Boys, a fascist extremist group with a violent agenda.



ProvenanceThe artist, Brooklyn; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition History"Life Magazine and the Power of Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 9, 2022–January 16, 2023.

"Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives," Hoffmaster Gallery, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 14–March 11, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
.A: Inscribed in pencil, recto, bottom left: 1/1
.B: Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right: Alexandra Bell 2021
.B: Signed in pencil, recto, bottom right: Alexandra Bell 2021

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provided by lender
Jim Hodges
2016
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Etching, aquatint, printed chine collé, lithograph, and screenprint, edition 3/30
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Etching, aquatint, printed chine collé, lithograph, and screenprint, edition 3/30
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Letting
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2008
Etching, aquatint, printed chine collé, lithograph, and screenprint, edition 3/30
2009.1141.15